sit idle and eat , and in time one 's whole fortune will be used up

sit idle and eat , and in time one 's whole fortune will be used up

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin, is Zu ò ch ī sh ā NK ō ng, which means that if you just sit and eat, the mountain will be empty; it means that if you just consume and do not engage in production, even if you have a mountain of wealth, you will be exhausted. It's from Dong Tang Lao.

The origin of Idioms

In Yuan Dynasty, Qin Jianfu's the first fold of dongtanglao: "it's a good way to sit down and eat the mountain sky, and eat the ground subsidence."

Idiom usage

It has a derogatory meaning. Chapter 93 of Jin Ping Mei's Ci Hua: "I don't have enough money to spend every day in my family. I'm just sitting in the air." The first volume of Yu Shi Ming Yan written by Feng Menglong of Ming Dynasty: "after picking a good date, he told the Hun family five days ago and said:" as the saying goes, if you want to live in the mountains and empty air, my husband and wife will have to get married and start a business, or will you abandon this line of food and clothing? " volume 8 of "the first time to make a surprise on a case": "how can you sit on the mountain and eat nothing when you grow up now?" Chapter 28 of Li Baojia's the appearance of officialdom in the Qing Dynasty: after arriving in Beijing, he lived in a shop and was already a pawn seller. Chapter 21 of the history of civilization: "after a few days, Qingbao feels that he will eat nothing in the future. At that time, what should he do?"